ZEESHAN AFZAL

If you are having difficulty finding focus right now, join the club! You are not alone. In this article, I will share with you the top 5 motivating factors to keep you focused on the future. Because to have focus is to have a vision. In order to have a vision, you need to have a sight of what it is you are trying to achieve. Is it any wonder that you’re having trouble focusing when the vision of the future is unknown? We are in turbulent times. A time when we are being asked to stay home, to work from home, to study at home, to exercise at home, to eat at home. We are being exposed to people’s pains, their frustrations, their losses, and their fears. It may or may not be firsthand, but it is inescapable – unless of course, you can live without internet, a phone, a radio or a TV, and are happy to hibernate for the next few months. At some stage, you will ask yourself – what’s the point? What’s the point of keeping fit? What’s the point of eating healthily? What’s th...

Few activities have stood the test of 2500 years. Today we still have running, music, writing, swimming and… mindfulness meditation (among scarce others). Such ancient interests that are still practiced today have a good reason for thriving so many centuries later. But while our ancestors could feel the benefits of meditation, they didn’t have the luxury of modern science to support their claims; it seemed to improve their lives, so they kept doing it. Now, as western researchers have applied scientific rigor to mindfulness meditation, the results are in… and they’re more incredible than you might have imagined. Below are twelve science-based benefits of mindfulness meditation that will blow your mind. 1 Make your brain younger A Harvard neuroscientist and her team wanted to determine whether meditation can change the brain over the long run. Amazingly,  their research  found that 50-year-old meditators had the same amount of gray matter (brain cells) as 25...